Bibliography of suburbs

A large number of books and articles have been written on the subject of suburbs and suburban living as a regional, national or worldwide phenomenon. This is a selected bibliography of scholarly and analytical works, listed by subject region and focus.

Europe

* Archer, John. ''Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000''. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
* Boulton, Jeremy. ''Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century'' (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) (2005)
* Dyos, Harold James. ''Victorian suburb;: A study of the growth of Camberwell'' (1966)
* Galinou, Mireille. ''Cottages and Villas: The Birth of the Garden Suburb'' (2011)
* Jordan, Christine. ''Illustrated History of Leicester's Suburbs'' (2003)
* Kuchta, Todd. ''Semi-Detached Empire: Suburbia and the Colonization of Britain, 1880 to the Present'' (2010)
* Robey, Ann et al. ''Rediscovered Utopias: Saving London's Suburbs'' (2010)
* Vaughan, Laura et al. ''Suburban Urbanities''. UCL Press (2015) Available free from https://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.9781910634134
* Wilks, John. ''Walks Through History - Birmingham: Edgbaston: the creation of luxury suburbia'' (2011)

Canada

* Harris, Richard. ''Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950'' (1999)
* Harris, Richard. ''Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960'' (2004)
* Lewis, Robert. ''Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
* Lorimer, James, and Evelyn Ross. ''The Second City Book: Studies of Urban and Suburban Canada'' (1977)
* Morton, Suzanne. ''Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s'' (Studies in Gender and History) (1995)
* Whitzman, Carolyn. ''Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto's Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002'' (2010)

United States

Surveys

* Baxandall, Rosalyn and Elizabeth Ewen. ''Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened.'' New York: Basic Books, 2000.
* Beauregard, Robert A. '' When America Became Suburban''. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
* Bruegmann, Robert. ''Sprawl: A Compact History.'' University of Chicago Press, 2005.
* Duany, Andrés and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. ''Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.'' North Point Press, 2000.
* Fishman, Robert. ''Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia''. Basic Books, 1987.
* Gardner, Todd. “The Slow Wave: The Changing Residential Status of Cities and Suburbs in the United States, 1850–1949.” ''Journal of Urban History'' 27, no. 3 (March 2001): 293–312.
* Hanlon, Bernadette, John Rennie Short and Thomas J. Vicino. ''Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the U.S.'' Routledge, 2010.
* Harris, Richard and Robert Lewis. “The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900–1950: A New Synthesis.” ''Journal of Urban History'' 27, no. 3 (March 2001): 262–92.
* Hayden, Dolores. ''Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000''. Vintage Books, 2003.
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* Muller, Peter O. ''Contemporary Suburban America''. Prentice–Hall, 1981.
* Mumford, Lewis. ''The Culture of Cities.'' Harcourt Brace, 1938.
* Mumford, Lewis. “Suburbia — and Beyond.” In ''The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects'', by Lewis Mumford, 483–503. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
* Nicolaides, Becky M. and Andrew Weise, editors. ''The Suburb Reader''. Routledge, 2006.
* Palen, J. John. ''The Suburbs''. McGraw–Hill, 1995.
* Stilgoe, John R. ''Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939''. Yale University Press, 1989.
* Teaford, Jon C. ''The American Suburb: The Basics''. Routledge, 2008.
* Teaford, Jon C. ''The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America'' (2006)

Specialized studies

* Archer, John. ''Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
* Archer, John. “Country and City in the American Romantic Suburb.” ''The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'' 42, no. 2 (May 1983): 139–56.
* Baldassare, Mark. ''Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation in America''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
* Baumgartner, M. P. ''The Moral Order of a Suburb.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
* Binford, Henry C. ''The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815–1860''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
* Blakely, Edward J. and Mary Gail Snyder. ''Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States''. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997.
* Blauvelt, Andrew, ed. ''Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes''. Walker Art Center, 2008.
* Conn, Steven and Max Page, editors. ''Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
* Crawford, Margaret. ''Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns''. Verso, 1995.
* Davis, Mike. '' City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles''. London: Verso, 1990.
* Donoghue, John. ''Alexander Jackson Davis, Romantic Architect, 1803–1892''. New York: Arno Press, 1977.
* Douglass, Harlan Paul. ''The Suburban Trend''. 1925.
* Downs, Jr., Arthur Channing. “Downing’s Newburgh Villa.” ''Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology'' 4, nos. 3–4 (1972): 1–113.
* Ebner, Michael H. ''Creating Chicago’s North Shore: A Suburban History''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
* Flint, Anthony. ''This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
* Fogelson, Robert M. ''Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–193. Yale University Press, 2005.
* Garreau, Joel. ''Edge City: Life on the New Frontier''. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
* Gruenberg, Sidonie Matsner. "The Challenge of the New Suburbs." ''Marriage and Family Living'' 17, no. 2 (May 1955): 133–37.
* Hanlon, Bernadette.''Once the American Dream: Inner ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States''. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
* Harris, Richard and Robert Lewis. “Constructing a Fault(y) Zone: Misrepresentations of American Cities and Suburbs, 1900–1950.” ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 88, no. 4 (1998): 622–41.
* Hayden, Dolores. ''Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1920–2000.'' New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.
* Henderson, Susan. “Llewellyn Park, Suburban Idyll.” ''Journal of Garden History'' 7, no. 3 (July–September 1987): 221–43.
* Hise, Greg. ''Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
* Hope, Andrew. "Evaluation the Significance of San Lorenzo Village, A Mid-20th Century Suburban Community." ''CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship'' 2 (Summer 2005): 50–61.
* Hope, Andrew. "Evaluation the Significance of San Lorenzo Village, A Mid-20th Century Suburban Community." ''CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship'' 2 (Summer 2005): 50–61.
* Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. ''Discovering the Vernacular Landscape''. Yale University Press, 1984.
* Jacobs, Jane. ''Dark Age Ahead''. Random House, 2004.
* Kargon, Robert Hugh and Arthur P. Molella. ''Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century''. MIT Press, 2008.
* Katz, Bruce and Robert E. Lang, editors. ''Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000''. Brookings, 2003.
* Katz, Peter, editor. ''The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community''. Afterword by Vincent Scully. McGraw–Hill, 1994.
* Kay, Jane Holtz. ''Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile took over America, and How We Can Take it Back''. Crown Publishers, 1997.
* Keating, Ann Durkin. ''Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis''. Ohio State University Press, 1988.
* Kelly, Barbara. ''Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown''. State University of Albany Press, 1993.
* Low, Setha. '' Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America''. New York: Routledge, 2003.
* Lukez, Paul. ''Suburban Transformations''. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.
* Mattingly, Paul H. ''Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
* McKenzie, Evan. ''Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government''. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994.
* Morton, Marian. "The Suburban Ideal and Suburban Realities: Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 1860–2001." ''Journal of Urban History'' 28, no. 5 (September 2002) 671–98.
* Nicolaides, Becky M. ''My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965''. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
* O'Connell, James C. ''The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development From Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth'' (MIT Press; 2013) 326 pages
* O'Toole, Randall. "The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths
The Thoreau Institute.
* Orfield, Myron. ''American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality''. Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
* Russell, James S. “When Suburbs Become Mega-Suburbs.” ''Architectural Record'' 191, no. 8 (August 2003): 76–81.
* Rybczynski, Witold (November 7, 2005)
"Suburban Despair"
'' Slate''.
* Rybczynski, Witold. "How to Build a Suburb." ''The Wilson Quarterly'' 19 no. 3 (Summer 2005): 114–126.
* Salamon, Sonya. ''Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland''. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
* Sandul, Paul J. P. ''California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State''. West Virginia University Press, 2014.
* Schuyler, David. ''Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
* Schuyler, David. ''The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of Form in Nineteenth-Century America''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
* Sies, Mary Corbin. “The City Transformed: Nature, Technology, and the Suburban Ideal, 1877–1917.” ''Journal of Urban History'' 14, no. 1 (November 1987): 81–111.
* Sies, Mary Corbin. ''American Urban History: The Everyday Politics and Spatial Logics of Metropolitan Life.” ''Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire'' 32, no. 1 (Fall 2003): 28–42.
* Sies, Mary Corbin. “Paradise Retained: An Analysis of Persistence in Planned, Exclusive Suburbs, 1880–1980.” ''Planning Perspectives'' 12 (1997): 165–91.
* Smith, Albert C. & Schank, Kendra (1999). "A Grotesque Measure for Marietta". ''Journal of Urban Design'' 4 (3).
* Stevens, William K. “Beyond the Mall: Suburbs Evolving into ‘Outer City.’” ''New York Times'', November 8, 1987, E5.
* Sweeting, Adam W. ''Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature, 1835–1855''. University Press of New England, 1996.
* Tatum, George B. and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, editors. ''Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852''. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1989.
* Walker, Richard and Robert Lewis. “Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850–1950.” ''Journal of Historical Geography'' 27, no. 1 (January 2001): 3–19.
* Warner, Jr., Sam Bass. ''Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900''. 1962.
* Wilson, Richard Guy. “Idealism and the Origin of the First American Suburb: Llewellyn Park, New Jersey.” ''American Art Journal'' (October 1979): 79–90.
* Jackson, Kenneth T.. "All the World's a Mall: Reflections on the Social and Economic Consequences of the American Shopping Center." '' The American Historical Review'' 101 no. 4 (October 1996): 1111–1121.
* Wright, Gwendolyn. ''Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America''. Pantheon Books, 1981.
* von Hoffman, Alexander. ''Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850–1920''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Women, family, lifestyles and images

* Clark, Jr., Clifford Edward. ''The American Family Home, 1800–1960''. University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
* Coon, David R. ''Look Closer: Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television'' )Rutgers University Press; 2013) 269 pages; explores the critical image of suburbia in such films and TV shows as ''American Beauty, The Truman Show, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Desperate Housewives, Weeds,'' and ''Big Love.''
* Friedan, Betty. ''The Feminine Mystique''. Norton, 1963.
* Marsh, Margaret. ''Suburban Lives''. Rutgers University Press, 1990.
* Marsh, Margaret. "Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity.” '' American Quarterly'' 40, no. 2 (June 1988): 165–86.
* Murray, Sylvie. ''The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
* Putman, Robert D. ''Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community''. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
* Whyte, Jr., William H. '' The Organization Man''. Simon and Schuster, 1956.
* Wright, Gwendolyn. ''Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1870–1913''. University of Chicago Press, 1980

Race

* Avila, Eric. ''Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
* Greason, Walter D. "Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey". Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.
* Fong, Timothy P. ''The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California''. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
* Haynes, Bruce D. ''Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
* Johnson, Ronald M. “From Romantic Suburb to Racial Enclave: LeDroit Park, Washington, D.C., 1880–1920.” ''Phylon'' 45, no. 4 (4th Quarter 1984): 264–70.
* Kalita, S. Mitra. ''Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage from India to America''. Rutgers University Press, 2003.
* Kirp, David L., John P. Dwyer, and Larry A. Rosenthal ''Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia''. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
* Kruse, Kevin M. ''White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism''. Princeton University Press, 2005.
* Li, Wei. “Building Ethnoburbia: The Emergence and Manifestation of the Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley.” ''Journal of Asian American Studies'' 2, no. 1 (February 1999): 1–29.
* Lipsitz, George. ''The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics''. Temple University Press, 1998.
* Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson. ''To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910–1963''. University of California Press, 2000.
* Orser, W. Edward. “Secondhand Suburbs: Black Pioneers in Baltimore’s Edmondson Village, 1955–1980.” ''Journal of Urban History'' 10, no. 3 (May 1990): 227–62.
* O’ Mara, Margaret Pugh. “Suburbia Reconsidered: Race, Politics, and Prosperity in the Twentieth Century.” ''Journal of Social History'' 39, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 229–44.
* Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. ''Black Pickett Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class''. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
* Self, Robert O. ''American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland''. Princeton University Press, 2003.
* Sugrue, Thomas J. '' The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit''. Princeton University Press, 1996.
* Taylor, Jr., Henry L. “The Building of a Black Industrial Suburb: The Lincoln Heights, Ohio.” Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979.
* Vicino, Thomas J. ''Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
* Weise, Andrew. ''Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century''. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
* Weise, Andrew. “Black Housing, White Finance: African American Housing and Home Ownership in Evanston, Illinois, before 1940.” ''Journal of Social History'' 33, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 429–60.
* Weise, Andrew. “Places of Our Own: Suburban Black Towns before 1960.” ''Journal of Urban History'' 19, no. 3 (1993): 30–54.
* Wilson, William H. ''Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Environment and geography

* Blake, Peter. ''God’s Own Junkyard: The Planned Deterioration of America’s Landscape''. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
* Jindrich, Jason, “Suburbs in the City: Reassessing the Location of Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Suburbs,” ''Social Science History,'' 36 (Summer 2012), 147–67.
* Kunstler, James Howard. ''The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape.'' Simon and Schuster, 1993.
* Rome, Adam Ward. ''The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
* Winkler, Robert. ''Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness''. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003.

Politics

* Dreir, Peter, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom. ''Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century''. University of Kansas Press, 2002.
* Gans, Herbert J. ''The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community''. New York: Pantheon, 1967.
* Lassiter, Matthew D. "The New Suburban History II: Political Culture and Metropolitan Space.” ''Journal of Planning History'' 4, no. 1 (February 2005): 75–88.
* Lassiter, Matthew D. ''The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South''. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006.
* Lassiter, Matthew D. “Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar Politics.” In ''The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History'', edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, 327–49. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
* McGirr, Lisa. ''Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right''. Princeton University Press, 2001.
* Oliver, J. Eric. ''Democracy in Suburbia''. Princeton University Press, 2001.
* Teaford, Jon C. ''City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850–1970''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
* Vicino, Thomas J. ''Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy''. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Historiography

* Archer, John; Paul J.P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson (eds.), ''Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America.'' Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
* Ebner, Michael H. "Re-Reading Suburban America: Urban Population Deconcentration, 1810-1980," ''American Quarterly'' (1985) 37#3 pp. 368-38
in JSTOR
* Kruse, Kevin M, and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. ''The New Suburban History''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
* McManus, Ruth, and Philip J. Ethington, "Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history," ''Urban History,'' Aug 2007, Vol. 34 Issue 2, pp 317–337
* McShane, Clay. "The State of the Art in North American Urban History," ''Journal of Urban History'' (2006) 32#4 pp 582–597, identifies a loss of influence by such writers as Lewis Mumford, Robert Caro, and Sam Warner, a continuation of the emphasis on narrow, modern time periods, and a general decline in the importance of the field. Comments by Timothy Gilfoyle and Carl Abbott contest the latter conclusion.
* Nickerson, Michelle. "Beyond Smog, Sprawl, and Asphalt: Developments in the Not-So-New Suburban History," ''Journal of Urban History'' (2015) 41#1 pp 171–180. covers 1934 to 2011. DOI: 10.1177/0096144214551724.
* Seligman, Amanda I. “The New Suburban History”. ''Journal of Planning History'' 3, no. 4 (November 2004): 312–33.
* Shumsky, Larry. ''Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs'' (2 vol 1998)
* Sies, Mary Corbin. "Beyond Scholarly Orthodoxies in North American Suburban History", ''Journal of Urban History'' 27, no. 3 (March 2001): 355–61.
* Vicino, Thomas J. "The political history of a postwar suburban society revisited." ''History Compass'' (2008) 6#1 pp: 364–388
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